A Colorado bill that would have outlawed the use of “conversion therapy” on LGBT minors was killed by three Republican Senators late Wednesday, The Denver Post‘s Joey Bunch reports. The ban on the unscientific and controversial...

South Carolina officials filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court that argued banning same-sex marriage was constitutional because the Fourteenth Amendment originally did not prohibit states from discriminating against women, Slate’s Mark...

A group of Texans attempting to build a memorial to the Confederate war dead in Orange claim that the controversy around their plan to fly 32 Confederate battle flags — eight prominent ones, and another 24 to represent the Texas regiments...

A Tennessee pastor valiantly attempted to convince the state House and Senate not to declare the Bible to be the state’s official book — but to no avail, The Tennessean‘s David Boucher reports. During the meeting of the Senate...

The Texas Association of Business and state Democrats stood side-by-side yesterday to declare that proposed amendments to the state’s constitution that resemble Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act would “devastate...

On last night’s episode of The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore went after states that are attempting to limit what items people can spend their welfare and food stamps on. First, he addressed the situation in Kansas, in which lawmakers are...

A former Department of Justice official went on Fox & Friends over the weekend to discuss the passage of a Madison, Wisconsin city ordinance that prohibits businesses from discriminating against atheists. According to J. Christian Adams,...

A bishop in Des Moines, Iowa is coming under fire after a video of him making detailed death threats to an unknown person started circulating online, WHO-TV reports. In the video, Bishop Jeremiah Reed of the Des Moines Apostolic Temple claims...

Last week, Reza Aslan delivered the University of Toledo’s Imam Khattab Lecture in Islamic Studies, and in it announced that he thinks it’s “fine” if people blame Islam for ISIS — but only if they also credit...

Atheists are spending this Christian holiday the way they spend most of them — by pointing out its absurdities on social media sites like Twitter. Noted atheist Richard Dawkins, for example, asked a very loaded question of his followers...

A gay-friendly Christian choir called “The Ripple Effect” is attempting to heal the small town of Walkerton, Indiana, which has been torn apart since the owners of Memories Pizza declared that they would discriminate against the LGBT...

The fake advertisement on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live took advantage of the popularity of the recent anti-Scientology HBO documentary Going Clear to mock a “Neurotology” ad purportedly made in the 1990s. The ad...

On the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, the venerable comedy show mocked the utter incompetence of the CNN Newsroom’s attempts to make the issues of the day understandable to its viewers. The skit opens with a report on the...

The Palm Beach Post‘s Christine Stapleton reports that the “Tea Party” protesters outside of the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday were, by and large, actors hired by the Tea Party of Miami and U.S. Sugar. The...